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#Spooktober 29 – The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

Do you like Jane Austen enough (or not enough) to enjoy parodies and retellings? Did you like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? Well maybe, just maybe, you’ll enjoy Melinda Taub’s The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch. The story tries to bring justice to Lydia Bennet, the youngest of Pride and Prejudice‘s Bennet sisters, while she has to deal with her sister Kitty (who’s actually a barn cat), Mr. Wickham (who’s actually a demon) and Mr. Darcy (who reacts to witchcraft the way you’d expect). Described as “Pride and Prejudice” meets “Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell”, only with more witches.

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